The inmates have a legal battle going, basically saying "Lethal Injection is painful".
What about their victims ?
Most murders do not appear to be "painless".
2007-07-10 11:39:56 · 18 answers · asked by knot_your_daddy 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Beecuz tha gubmint be scared of offending tha hippies !
2007-07-10 13:28:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-06-12 10:13:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're missing the actual legal issues in the argument.
What happens to the victim is not relevant -- the criminal has already been convicted and sentenced.
The reason is as you point out -- there is an ongoing legal battle that the method of execution violates the 8th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Once that legal battle is resolved, executions will resume under either the current system (if the state wins) or using a new method of execution (if the inmates "win").
2007-07-10 11:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
California has executed 17 people since 1976 and in 2006 there was 1 person.
The inmates always have some legal battle occurring, so would you if you had nothing to lose and a lot of time on your hands.
I agree about the victims and that their crimes are usually not painless, if it were up to me I would like to see the same done to them as they did to their victims, but it's not up to me.
2007-07-10 11:49:52 · answer #4 · answered by Lori B 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I thought the problem with the death penalty is California was that a doctor has to administer the lethal injection and the doctors are refusing to do so because it violates the Hippocratic oath, but I have a lot of respect for coragryph and he is a California attorney. His answers are always worth serious consideration.
2007-07-10 12:12:05 · answer #5 · answered by David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CA has greater prisoners on loss of existence row than another state interior the rustic. The execution technique has quite a few automatic appeals that could desire to be heard. The intense courts interior the state have additionally declared execution cruel and unusual so there should not be any until that gets cleared up.
2016-10-01 08:06:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is painful, if you are guilty of committing such a crime to someone else, you deserve far worse, be GLAD it's not a firing line or the guillotine..frankly they aren't useful citizens anyways, so they might as well be executed and save the taxpayer the headaches and contribute that money to someone who can contribute to this society...btw did you know people in jail get better health care treatment than those out here? Amazing..
2007-07-10 11:44:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
California does execute people, sadly the process is quite slow. There are the numerous appeals that the inmates file plus the case gets scrutinized more closely so the wrong person isn't executed.
2007-07-10 11:47:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Basically, there are certain judges that are against the death penalty, but they cannot rule that it is unconstitutional because the supreme court already said it is. So they come up with other excuses to delay executions. No one who accepts the constitutionality of the death penalty would take the 8th amendment argument seriously, but federal judges use it to stall the death penalty because they disagree with it.
2007-07-10 12:38:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals allows for Hanging. Two in Washington State in the 1990's
California use to Hang at Folsom and San Quienten
Maybe we should give up lethal injection
2014-03-10 11:30:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every State has it's OWN issues- regarding the Death Penalty...-And California is one of those that just can't bring itself to carry it out.
2007-07-10 11:49:36 · answer #11 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋